[Vwoolf] Patrick Ness's RELEASE

[Shannon, Drew [School of Arts & Humanities]]

And along these lines, the new teen novel RELEASE, by Patrick Ness (an American long based in the UK), is a retelling of MRS. DALLOWAY, beginning with the line, "Alex said he would buy the flowers himself."  It's available in the UK now; I believe it's being published in the US in October.

Cheers,
Drew

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"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual." -- Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

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Subject: [Vwoolf] Woolf in Naomi Alderman's latest novel, THE POWER


List members in the mood for a modernist scavenger hunt will enjoy Naomi Alderman's most recent novel, a brilliant work of speculative fiction that imagines a future world in which girls' sudden ability to produce electric shocks results in a complete inversion of sexual hierarchies.  A scan reveals allusions at least to Conrad and Woolf, including the following passage: "A fragment of something he read a long time ago floats through his mind.  A flattering looking-glass.  He has to be a flattering mirror for her, reflecting her at twice her ordinary size, making her seem to herself to be strong enough to do this thing . . ."


The same character later thinks, "'This also has been one of the dark places of the earth.'"


Best to you all, with the hope that you're in bright places.


Todd

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